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Rapa Nui National Park Welcome to Rapa Nui National Park. Purchase your ticket, hire your guide, and explore.

These colossal statues are not miracles or the work of space aliens. They were carved and moved by the Rapa Nui people themselves.

Today we celebrate the discovery by a few witnesses of something so unexpected and important that for centuries people have debated the facts of the case.

On April 5, 1722, Jacob Roggeveen and his crew became the first Europeans to see the moai of Rapa Nui.

Image showing JD Vance's new book cover, "Communion, finding my way back to faith" on the left and Whitley Strieber's book "Communion, a true story" on the right.

Coincidence?

White House again proposes steep NASA budget cuts For the second consecutive year, the White House is proposing a major budget cut for NASA that would significantly impact science and the ISS.

"The brief summary released by OMB did not disclose many details about the NASA budget, but the 2027 proposal includes many of the same proposed cuts as in 2026. Science, for example, would be cut by $3.4 billion, or 47%."

That's the same cost as a few days of bombing Iran...

DNA twist in Shroud of Turin debate: Study points to possible roots in ancient India New genetic research from the University of Padova has added a surprising twist to the mystery of the Shroud of Turin, suggesting the iconic linen may have ancient Indian roots.

Shroud of India?

PRI's Wonderful Life — Paleontological Research Institution By Dr. Warren Allmon , Director of the Paleontological Research Institution December 30, 2025 The holidays are a time for “Christmas movies” in my house, and one that is always on our list is&nbs...

How about a good-news story?

No Kings As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

Please protest RFK Jr. and MAHA today!

Not British. 14.

Coming Thursday, April 9 A Duality in Mission Regarding UAPs: the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick AARO was a Congressionally mandate...

If you're in the DC area, you don't want to miss this presentation by Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick on April 9. Advance registration is required!

Industrial Scale Renewable Energy: A Skeptic’s Scrutiny From The Hinterlands (Mark Haynes) YouTube video by National Capital Area Skeptics (NCAS)

Streaming now!

History of Freethought and Skepticism Gallery | Center for Inquiry Welcome to the History of Freethought and Skepticism Gallery The History of Freethought and Skepticism Gallery is a new permanent, museum-quality exhibition ...

CFI is building a museum!

The old Bigfoot is dead, long live the idea of Bigfoot A new documentary by Marq Evans presents the history of the infamous Patterson Gimlin Film (PGF) and includes NEW information that reveals the truth behind the film.

"Cryptozoology in the 21st century is primarily the realm of the Pop Cryptid. Cryptids, in that sense, are more popular than ever." @sharonahill.bsky.social

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Thank you for the great work!

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Senator Chris Van Hollen standing up for Science!

Stage at the DC Stand up for Science rally.

Time to Stand up for Science!

James Hutton (3 June 1726 - 26 March 1797): we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end. March 7, 1785 , fifty members of the Royal Society gathered in the library of the University of Edinburgh to hear a lecture from the " fa...

On March 7, 1785, James Hutton’s paper “Concerning the System of the Earth” was read to the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He argued that Earth was shaped by slow, natural processes operating over immense spans of time, challenging Ussher’s famous calculation that God created the world in 4004 BCE.

Tomorrow!

Dinner with King Tut: The Wild World of Experimental Archaeology | Sam Kean | Skeptical Inquirer Presents Science has advanced enormously in the past 500 years, guided by experimental tests of theory and practice.  In that same time, science teaching and education—guided primarily by tradition and dogma—h...

Tonight!

RFK Jr. Tells Joe Rogan He’s About to Unleash 14 Banned Peptides RFK Jr. plans to reverse a sweeping compounding ban of certain peptides issued by the FDA in late 2023.

This is madness. I wrote about "peptides" a few years ago, before the trend really hit. People are injecting themselves with black-market liquids purported to contain experimental drugs that were abandoned for failing to show benefits or being unsafe.

gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-tells...

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This Saturday (March 7), Stand up for Science!

Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? Dr. Bart D. Ehrman and Autodidact Jonathan Sheffield join moderator Dr. Stephen Boyce on the FACTS Podcast for a live debate on one of the most important questions in Christian history: Did Jesus Ris...

This could be interesting.

See also Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no.'"

Interesting that NPR calls Frye a "controversial figure in the medical community and a prominent advocate of leucovorin treatment for autistic children." Makes you wonder about his study.

"The extent of the effects surprised even Frye. In his first study of 44 children with 12 weeks of treatment, 67 percent of those who took the drug saw improvements in receptive and expressive language."

The drug Trump plans to promote for autism shows real (and fragile) hope Leucovorin brings hope as the first potential autism treatment, but with RFK Jr. weighing whether to fast-track approval, scientists worry about trust.

"Frye... and his colleagues launched double-blind placebo-controlled trials that were funded in part by the National Institutes of Health and Defense Department. They involved children who took a twice-daily pill version of leucovorin."

“'These are just the latest examples in a record that stretches back a decade of Secretary Kennedy making claims about vaccines that are contradicted by facts and data,' Michael Osterholm, executive director of the University of Minnesota’s Vaccine Integrity Project, said in a statement."